Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-01
DAKOTA NEWS.

DAAVlA NE VS.
The Dakota Medical Association were in
session recently at Huron.
Hanson county will refund it's debt of
$4,000 in the near future.
Six teams are kept busy hauling fax
straw to keep the Egan tow-mill running.
The Burlington ran its first excursion
train from Sioux Falls to Spirit Lake re-
Gently.
Papers throughout the territory are
booming the division question with
wonderful unanmity.
The gas we'll near Blunt is counted upon
as sufficient to furnish that town with light
and fuel for the future.
In the division of moneys for military
purposes, Dakota gets s2,764 and all other
territories the same amount.
Rev. A. A. Murphy has resigned the
pastorate Of the Huron Congregational
church because Of i'll health.
Charles Green and William Hamlin,
the Pierre horse thieves have been landed
in the Sioux Falls penitentiary.
"A band of fortune telling gypsies have
been doing q fourishing business at the ex-
pense of credulous citizens of Hot Springs.
The territorial grand lodge of Masons
was in session at Huron lately and the
crowd was estimated at between 1000 and
5000.
1T is given out that the Milwaukee has
just made new tariff from Chicago to
Fargo which is greatly below any former
rates.
-Sturgis wants the land Office, and the
Record says that to move it to Rapid City
would only be to make bad matter
worse.
Judge Spencer, who is attending court
at Pierre, narrowly escaped severe injury
recently, being thrown from buggy by
runaway horse.
The contract for the construction of
the new asylum building at jamestown has
been let to II. G. and j. S. Hotchkiss, their
bid being ssS,552.
Huron has an over supply of vicious
CANNES, and the citizens propose to go
cunning for them unless the marshal saves
them that trouble.
A colony Of about 200 people from the
borders OF the sea of Azoy, in Southern
Russia, are locating in the eastern part of
Edmunds county.
"A syndicate Of Maine capitalists have
taken hold of the Forest City mills at
Pierre, and will build -four mill and put
q steamboat on the river.
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rapidly. New buildings going up all over
town; new sidewalks being laid and various
other improvements being effected.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader will
hereafter be four pages instead OF eight,
except on Saturday, when the quarto form
will be used. The change is sensible
one.
Fargo has a sensation about young
girl of st. Paul, who was taken to house
OF ill-shape in the town first named, with
out being aware of its nature and against
her will.
"A wonderful cave has been discovered
near Baskerville, in the Black Hills. 1t is
said to be larger than the celebrated "Cave
of the Winds" and abounds in natural
curiosities.
John Coswin, who last fall obtained
$500 loan on another mans land at
Hjghmore, has been captured by the
sheriff and returned to the scene of his
rascality.
"A deputy sheriff attempted to foreclose
a chattel mortgage against a swede farme,
named Ericsson, near Fargo, but the
Swede's friends to the number of about
fifty drove the officer away.
A man named Clayton, who lived near
Frederick, was being let down fifty foo
we'll in bucket when the rope broke, let.
ting him fall about twenty feet. He wat
badly hurt but may recover.
Work has commenced on Aberdeen's
new city hall and it will be pushed forward
as rapidly as possible. The people there
hope to see the building occupied by thu
Brown county officials after July 70.
IS. Mccormack, of Sioux Falls, hal
been awarded the contract for building the
Loan and Trust companys block at Water.
town. The stone, iron work and contrac
l.
building.
-Groton is having queer experience
with an artesian we'll, the water having
forced en- opening about two blocks norti
of the mouth of the we'll, and there ar
grave apprehensions Of trouble from tn
eccentric spouter.
The crop of wild hay will be almost
total failure in the Black Hills country an,
many farmers in that region are putting il
large fields Of millet and Hungarian grass
These tame grasses with the native that cal
be cut in enclosures will make more ha,
than is usually put up.
At Flandrau recently lightning rc
agent attempted to ravsh the wife of C
W. Kills, farmer residing about Zen mile
west of there. He induced her to tax
hold of the handles of an electric battery
and while under the influence of the shoe
took advantage Of her. He has not beel